Vegetative cover, light availability, and Buckthorn performance in five forest revegetation treatments
Cite this dataset
Schuster, Michael (2022). Vegetative cover, light availability, and Buckthorn performance in five forest revegetation treatments [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.573n5tb9w
Abstract
Data describing the cover, light availability, and buckthorn performance of five forest revegetation treatments (passive restoration, herbaceous seeding, sedge planting, shrub planting, and tree planting).
Methods
Methods described in "Using plants to control buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): Improved biotic resistance of forests through revegetation" published in Ecological Engineering.
Abbreviations:
| Small_Treatment | Description | Seeded? | Fenced? |
| SF | Seeded | Yes | Yes |
| F | Control | No | Yes |
| T | Tree | Yes | Yes |
| W | Shrub | Yes | Yes |
| S | Sedge | Yes | Yes |
NA = "Not Available" or "Not Applicable" - Values were not measured
| Focal_plant_found (Phytometers_Standing) | description |
| F | marked focal seedling found |
| NF | marked focal seedling not found (marker found, but no seedling was present - presumed dead) |
| leaf_status (Phytometers_Standing) | description |
| LI | Leaves intact |
| LD | Leaves damaged (more than 25% of leaf area missing) |
| DEAD | No leaves present, plant presumed dead |
Exclude_after_this = whether plants were excluded from later calculations either because it was used for allometry, damaged by a falling tree, or otherwise no longer informative (1=yes)
Funding
Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center, University of Minnesota